This week Guest Star and film scholar Earl Jackson writes about an injured Japanese teen hearthrob’s return to the screen in a movie that references his injury and the incident that caused it. ~~~ Rushing headlong into the kaleidoscopic tumult of world film history, kibbitzing at a bazaar […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Alucarda, la hija de las tiniebla (1977)! “Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977). This feverish blast of Mexican Gothic horror follows Justine (Susana Kamini), a sheltered orphan who finds herself drawn to the wild, otherworldly […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Thamma. Unfortunately, “the latest installment in the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe, which frankly feels a little…de-fanged. SORRY NOT SORRY.” Listen/watch here.
At Letterboxd, Marya E. Gates shares 20 noir featured directed by women for your Noirvember viewing pleasure. See the list here.
At Decider, Walter Chaw breaks down 25 great films fro the 21st Century! “A quarter century into the new millennium and what better opportunity to chart the 25 best horror films during that span? New classics, updates or sequels to old classics, and a few curveballs to round […]
This movie raises an eternal question: is this plot Bollywood or is it Dickens?
Note: technically I have read little Dickens, so we’re going on ✨VIBES✨!